Adding genre?

[xxsashixx]

Hello!

Love your script!

Would there be any chance on adding %genre to the list of support formats for id3tagging/metadata?

The video in question has Genre - Artist - Title and I would love it if I could do metadata from title with %genre

Thanks!

[dstftw]

Read this and provide more context.

[xxsashixx]

So theres a bunch of videos that I would like to download with metadata

The video titles is as follows

Genre - Artist - Title

I am wanting to do something like this
youtube-dl -f 140 -o %(title)s.%(ext)s" urlhere --metadata-from-title "%(genre)s - %(artist)s - %(title)s"

however %genre isnt supported?

[dstftw]

1. Post an example URL.
2. How do you know it's "genre - artists - title" but not "artists - title - with - dashes"?

[xxsashixx]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8kyhNqj9A
2. Because all the videos that have been uploaded are in that sequence Genre - Artist - Title

[dstftw]

None of these videos are in format "genre - artist - title" but "【genre】artist - title".

[xxsashixx]

However.. is there anyway to add %genre to the list of metadata format/options?

I've been doing --restrict-filenames to not parse them

[dstftw]

This feature will be available in the next version via --metadata-from-title '【%(genre)s】%(artist)s - %(track)s' --add-metadata.